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Launched online in 2010, the composer biography database is in continuous development. As an entry point for web resources, its aim is to present at least a succinct biography of a composer as well as links to the Cdmc's own information resources: documentation on the composer available for consultation and, as the case may be, audio extracts and/or recordings of encounters. Know more
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Lettre d'information du Cdmc no 189 | Janvier 2020
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Pascale LAZARUS
A French composer born October 22, 1966 in Amiens.
A pianist by training, Pascale Lazarus studied at the Amiens Conservatory, the Paris Conservatory and the Grenoble Conservatory, where she obtained a DEM for composition in the class of Arnaud Petit. She initiated herself into jazz improvisation for two years in Tarrytown (USA) and continues to improvise, notably to accompany dance shows and classes. With an engineering diploma from the Compiègne Technology University, she followed a course at Ircam as part of a DEA in systems management.
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Lucie PROD'HOMME
A French composer born September 30, 1964.
After studying the piano and at the same time training to be an opera singer, Lucie Prod'homme studied electroacoustic composition with Pascal Gobin at the Marseilles Conservatory, where she won a prize in 1997. She also followed a university course in the "conception and realisation of cultural projects" at the faculty of Aix-Marseille. Prod'homme divides her time between teaching and composition.
Carol ROBINSON
A French and American composer, performer, improviser born June 12, 1956 in Langley (Virginia, United States).
Lin-Ni LIAO
A Taiwanese composer and musicologist born November 11, 1977.
Lara MORCIANO
An Italian composer born May 3, 1968 in Zurich (Swiss).
A French composer born May 4, 1960 in Paris.
A pianist by training, Béatrice Thiriet studied at the Versailles Conservatory in the classes of Jean Aubin and Solange Ancona. Her interest in style as well as in the theatre and the cinema directed her quite naturally towards incidental music. Opera and film music thus became her preferred genres.
Agata ZUBEL
A Polish composer born 1978.
Agata Zubel studied percussion, singing and composition in Wroclaw, Poland, at the Karol Symanowski High School of Music and the Karol Lipinski University of Music.
As a singer she has performed many contemporary works such as Chantefleurs et Chantefables by Witold Lutoslawski, Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino as also the role of Madeline in The Fall of the House of Usher by Philip Glass.
With the pianist and composer Cezary Duchnowski she forms the duet EllectroVoce, working on improvisation and live vocal treatment. In the line of Cathy Berberian, Zubel explores all the resources of her voice and all the variety of modes of vocal production.
Camille PEPIN
A French composer born January 17, 1990.
After instrumental training at the Amiens Conservatory, Camille Pépin entered the Pôle Supérieur d'Enseignement Artistique in Paris and then the Paris Conservatory, in the classes notably of Thierry Escaich, Guillaume Connesson and Marc-André Dalbavie.
Hélène BRESCHAND
A French composer born March 18, 1966.
A harpist trained at the Paris Conservatory in the class of Brigitte Sylvestre, Hélène Breschand is a co-founder of the ensembles Laborintus and Topophonie.
Bernard WYSTRAETE
A French composer, conductor and flutist born June 20, 1942 in Roubaix.
A poly-instrumentalist, Bernard Wystraëte studied in particular the flute, conducting and composition at the Roubaix Conservatory and the Paris Conservatory, as well as musicology at the University of Paris 8.
A virtuoso of the transverse flutes, notably bass and octobass, he is solo flautist of the Orchestre de la Comédie Française and a soloist for Radio France, in permanent collaboration with the Atelier de Création Radiophonique of France Culture. He also records the works of leading composers of film music such as Michel Legrand, Maurice Jarre, Georges Delerue, Francis Laï and Jean-Claude Petit.
Composers of the Catalogue
ABECASSIS Eryck (1956)
ABOULKER Isabelle (1938)
ADAMEK Ondrej (1979)
ADAMO Daniel A. D' (1966)
ADAMS John (1947)
ADÈS Thomas (1971)
AGOBET Jean-Louis (1968)
ALLA Thierry (1955)
ALSINA Carlos Roqué (1941)
AMBROSINI Claudio (1948)
AMY Gilbert (1936)
ANDRE Mark (1964)
ANDREYEV Samuel (1981)
D'ANGIOLINI Giuliano (1960)
ANTIGNANI Luca (1976)
APERGHIS Georges (1945)
ARROYO Juan (1981)
ASCIONE Patrick (1953-2014)
ATHANÉ Pierre-André (1954)
ATTAHIR Benjamin (1989)
BABONI SCHILINGI Jacopo (1971)
BACRI Nicolas (1961)
BALASSE Thierry (1964)
BALLEREAU Igor (1969)
BALLIF Claude (1924-2004)
BANCQUART Alain (1934)
BARRAUD Henry (1900-1997)
BARRIERE Françoise (1944-2019)
BEDROSSIAN Franck (1971)
Le compositeur à l'œuvre
BULFON Stefano (1975)
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CHAIGNE Jean-Pascal (1977)
CHAURIS Yves (1980)
ESCALONA-MIJARES Mirtru (1976)
LA FUENTE Benjamin (de) (1969)
GAXIE Sébastien (1977)
HUDRY David (1978)
JODLOWSKI Pierre (1971)
ROCHE Colin (1974)
SARHAN François (1972)
SIGHICELLI Samuel (1972)
SINNHUBER Claire-Mélanie (1973)
SOLANO Ivan (1973)
AA Michel Van Der (1970)
ABBOTT Alain (1938)
ACQUAVIVA Frédéric (1967)
ADAM WALRAND Jean-Christophe (1949)
AGER Klaus (1946)
AHARONIAN Coriun (1940)
ALAGNA Jean-Pascal (1963)
ALANDIA Edgar (1950)
ALLENDE-BLIN Juan (1928)
ALLOUARD CARNY Odette (1914-2014)
ALTIER Stéphane (1969)
ALVAREZ Javier (1956)
AMIOT Jean-Claude (1939)
AMORIC Michel (1949)
AN Chengbi (1967)
ANASTAS Mounir (1963)
ANCONA Solange (1943-2019)
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